GCHQ Password Guidelines Announced

GCHQ Password Guidelines Announced

GCHQ, the Governments spying and snooping agency has released some new guidelines for choosing passwords.

To cut a long story short, their research suggests using simpler passwords, made up from 3 random words. Your passwords may be difficult for a human to guess, but computers could figure it out easier. They also suggest corporations that enforce a password change policy, for example every 60 days, is encouraging people to choose easy to remember passwords which obviously increases risk, need to re evaluate how they chose their policy’s.